Registry
VCS
Also known as: Verified Carbon Standard
TL;DR
The carbon-credit standard owned by Verra — the most widely used voluntary-market standard globally, including the bulk of Indonesian project credits.
Full explainer
VCS — the Verified Carbon Standard — is the certification standard owned and operated by Verra, the largest voluntary-market crediting programme by issued volume. A VCS project goes through a full lifecycle: it is registered, validated against an approved methodology (the VM####, VMR####, and AMS-#### families), undergoes verification at intervals, and is issued Verified Carbon Units (VCUs) for each tonne of CO₂e it has reduced or removed.
Indonesian projects on Verra typically use VM0007 (legacy REDD+), VM0048 (consolidated REDD), VM0033 (tidal wetland restoration), or VM0047 (ARR). VCS credits can be 'stacked' with co-benefit standards like CCB (Climate, Community & Biodiversity). VCS-certified credits dominate the Indonesian voluntary supply and increasingly route through IDXCarbon once cross-registered into SRN-PPI.
Authoritative source
VCS — Verra →Related terms